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No fewer than eight members of the All Progressives Congress were kidnapped between Araromi Opin and Obbo Ile in Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara. A relative of one of the victims, Mr Adekunle Oluwole, told the newsmen on Thursday ...

    Here is a lovely photo of the new First family of Anambra state. Adaora Soludo posted the photo on her Instagram to congratulate her dad. Her post below…

The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Faruk Yahaya, has assured Nigerians that the Army will provide conducive and secure environment for the conduct of the 2023 general elections. Yahaya gave the assurance at the closing of the Chief of ...

Ghana, Gabon, Uganda and some more African countries have ranked higher above Nigeria in World’s Happiest Nation list. Finland is named the world’s happiest country for the fifth year running, in an annual UN-sponsored index that again ranked Afghanistan as ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has confirmed that the immediate-past governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano, has not been released from detention. In a chat with Punch, the EFCC Spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, noted that Obiano was transferred to Abuja ...

Six persons suspected to be internet fraudsters, popularly called ‘Yahoo boys,’ have reportedly died in a motor accident in Delta State. Punch Metro gathered that the incident happened Tuesday when a truck collided with a Mercedes Benz car near Akala ...

A woman was shocked to find out a suspected urinary tract infection (UTI) was actually caused by stuck glass from a s3x toy she’d forgotten about four earlier. The 45-year-old from Tunisia was admitted to hospital with typical symptoms such ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has released the immediate-past governor of Anambra state, Willie Obiano. The former governor was arrested on Thursday night on his way out of Nigeria. Obiano had on Thursday completed his two-term tenure of ...

A former Commissioner for Information and Strategy in Abia State and the Publisher, Hallmark Newspapers, Chief Emeka Obasi is dead. The late veteran journalist passed on Tuesday, March 15, 2022, at a hospital in Lagos, aged 58. The unfortunate demise ...

    Mrs Ojukwu has congratulated Charles Soludo on his swearing-in as the Governor of Anambra State after she engaged in a fight with the wife of the out-gone governor, Mrs Ebelechukwu Obiano. Bianca in a post on her Facebook ...

Senator Stella Oduah has said calling Ambassador Bianca Ojukwu ”ashawo” by former First Lady of Anambra State, Mrs. Ebelechukwu Obiano,at Governor Charles Soludo’s inauguration today is weak and unnecessary. Reacting to the attack which has been condemned by many Nigerians, ...

Mrs Ojukwu, wife of Late Chief Emeka Ojukwu, the eternal leader of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA has congratulated Charles Soludo on his swearing-in as the Governor of Anambra State. Bianca in a post on her Facebook page described ...

Secretary-General of AIPCA churches in Kenya has been charged with forgery after fake 365,000 US dollars and fake Ksh96,000-worth notes were found in his car while driving along Kiambu road. Bernard Maina Mwangi who has been arraigned before Milimani Law ...

  An Abuja Upper Area Court in the Gwagwalada area council on Thursday sentenced a 19-year-old student, Hillary Yunana, to four-month imprisonment for stealing spaghetti and noodles from a shop. The convict, a resident of Bassa village, along Airport Road, ...

The Economic and Financial crimes commission, EFCC has arrested the immediate past Gov of Anambra state, Mr Willie Obiano at the Lagos airport at about 8 pm, while he was trying to flee Nigeria to Houston Texas in the USA ...

Nigeria’s total debt, comprising federal, states and the Federal Capital Territory rose to N39.556 trillion as at December 31, 2021. Director-general of the Debt Management Office (DMO), Ms Patience Oniha, made the disclosure on Thursday at a media briefing in ...

Obiano’s wife has allegedly slapped Bianca Ojukwu. The drama ensued during the inauguration of Prof Chukwuma Soludo as the governor of Anambra. There are, however, contradictory reports as to who slapped who first. But The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) ...

The Cross River State Government has ordered all fuel stations in the state currently hoarding and selling petrol at exorbitant prices to immediately revert to its official price of N165 per litre. In the last three weeks, there has been ...

Shehu Sani, a former federal lawmaker, has noted that prophets in Nigeria failed to predict the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, collapse of national grid and the current energy crisis in the country. Pastors and self-acclaimed prophets are used ...

Lagos State Government has pleaded with motorists to show understanding over the planned reopening of Lekki-Ikoyi Toll Gate. Information Commissioner, Gbenga Omotoso, spoke Wednesday, on Arise News about the plan by Lekki Concession Company (LCC) to resume tolling. The collection ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned a banker Judith Nneka Nwagwu for alleged fraud. She was docked before Justice D. A. Onyefulu of the Anambra State High Court in Onitsha, Anambra State. Nwagwu faces a seven-count charge ...

Pensioners and commercial transport operators on Wednesday paralysed traffic in Benin City, the Edo State capital, as they respectively protested the non-payment of their gratuities dating back to 2008 and the increased taxation by the Edo Government. The protesting pensioners ...

More than 2,000 civilians have been killed in the occupied Ukrainian port city of Mariupol so far, local authorities has said. The Mariupol city council said since the Russian invasion of Ukraine started on Feb. 24, 2,357 people have been ...

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has told President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently resign and hand over the presidency to his Vice, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo. The Governor made the call at a press conference in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, ...

A lion has been confirmed killed in Sambisa Forest by local hunters in the Konduga Local Council of Borno State. The lion is believed to have strayed from the Waza Game Reserve of Cameroun before it was intercepted and killed. ...